Part of the problem is that people refer to phony lawsuits as though they were fact. People will many times (as happened earlier in this thread) tell you that they know of a lawsuit where a criminal was hurt while breaking into a home. The criminal sued and won bigtime. Or they'll tell you about a time when someone sued a car company because they wrecked the car.. etc. etc. It happens a lot but the lawsuits are fake. Nobody bothers to check whether they're real. It's easy to do. All you need is the state the case was tried in and the name of the parties invovled. I don't know why people pass on fake lawsuits, there are many awful REAL lawsuits to choose from - what's the need for fake ones?
All you do when you talk about a lawsuit that you haven't verified is scare people. When people get scared, things like this happen where folks are afraid of getting sued when they could be helping.
Part of the problem is our legal system that makes everyone a criminal (because of an overly complex legal code). The rest of the problem is people passing on information that isn't true about fake lawsuits.
